Daily Dreamtime - January 4th, 2007

With the right equipment, future guitar virtuosos and “Stairway to Heaven” fanatics don’t have to be

With the right equipment, future guitar virtuosos and “Stairway to Heaven” fanatics don’t have to be chained to bulky amplifiers in the basement to practice and record their riffs. Hammacher Schlemmer offers the PC Recording Studio Guitar, a six-string electric instrument that comes with a U.S.B. port to connect it directly to a PC or Mac.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/technology/04guitar.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

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Polk-McGovern Briefing on Iraq--January 12

Finally, arrangements have been made for the briefing on Capitol
Hill by Bill Polk and George McGovern on their plan for getting out of
Iraq with the least possible damage, as explained in their recently
published book, "Out Of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now." The
briefing will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, January 12, in the
Cannon House Office Building Caucus Room on the third floor. Here is
Bill Polk's message. An earlier message said the speakers cannot invite
people to the Press Club meeting under PC rules.

I just got confirmation from Pelosi staff that we have reserved and can
use the large Cannon Caucus Room on the 3rd floor of the Cannon House
Office Building (seats 300400 people) for the Capitol Hill Town Hall
meeting on Iraq from 9:30 - 11:30 A.M. on January 12th. Right after
that Senator McGovern, Congresswomen Woolsey, Lee, and Waters go to the
National Press Club luncheon and briefing. As I wrote below, I would be
grateful for all the help you can give to alert your friends and
colleagues about the 9:30 briefing. We will need all the support we can
muster. Bill
William R. Polk
williamrpolk@post.harvard.edu
669 Chemin de la Sine
F-06140 Vence France
fax: +33-493 24 08 77

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Washington Watch: Tom Friedman, Condoleezza Rice, Virgil Goode

Washington Watch: Tom Friedman, Condoleezza Rice, Virgil Goode
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Fw: Washington Watch: Tom Friedman, Condoleezza Rice, Virgil
Goode
Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:30:16 -0500
From:   Edward L. Peck
The man has a valid and powerful point, one which is both highly
disturbing and very dangerous. We are sliding rapidly toward that most
deadly of conflicts, a religious war. To have the fires fed here, with
hateful, bigoted public statements by those who should know better as
well as ignorant bigots, to a population as ill-informed as it is
mis-informed, will most certainly not help us avoid a major
catastrophe. I hope I am wrong..

*From: *James Zogby <jzogby@aaiusa.org <mailto:jzogby@aaiusa.org>>
> *Date: *January 2, 2007 3:29:59 PM EST
> *Subject: **Washington Watch: Tom Friedman, Condoleezza Rice, Virgil
> Goode*
> *Reply-To:
> <http://www.aaiusa.org/page/m/gm2oi6vlzi6/3ihzrm>
> <http://www.aaiusa.org/page/m/gm2oi6vlzi6/Qatrvy>
>
>
>   December 29, 2006
>
>
>
>
> */Tom Friedman, Condoleezza Rice, Virgil Goode – /*
>
> */The Polluting Of Our National Discourse/*
>
> An article by Tom Friedman, a quote from Secretary of State
> Condoleezza Rice and a letter by a Virginia Congressman hit in one day
> last week reminding me how tolerant our national discourse has become
> of bigotry toward Arabs and Muslims and how condescending
> policy-makers and analysts have become in their dealings with the
> Middle East region.
>
> _Tom Friedman's Article_
>
> In the lead up to the Iraq War, /New York Times/ columnist Tom
> Friedman was one of the invasion's strong advocates. Friedman has now
> figured out why the war has gone so badly and so in a rather
> remarkable piece appearing in the /Times /this week, he offers advice
> to President Bush.
>
> Never known for humility or apologies, here's what Friedman has
> concluded: it's the Arabs' fault. I said the article was remarkable,
> and it was, not for its wisdom, but for its shameless self-serving
> bigotry.
>
> Here's why.
>
> The article "Mideast Rules To Live By" makes the following observations:
>
>     * Arabs are dishonest (they say one thing in private, another in
>       public);
>     * Arabs are illogical (prone to conspiracies);
>     * Arabs are weak-kneed, without principles ("moderates", in
>       particular, are dissemblers, with no backbone);
>     * Arabs are more violent and vengeful than "we" are;
>     * Arabs are petty and tribal, and so on.
>
> > 1600 K Street, NW Suite 601
> Washington, DC 20006
> www.aaiusa.org <http://www.aaiusa.org/page/m/gm2oi6vlzi6/3ihzrm>
>
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Uri Avnery on The Kiss of Death--1/6/07

Subject: Uri Avnery on The Kiss of Death--1/6/07
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:53:38 -0500

Uri Avnery
6.1.2007

Kiss of Death

SINCE JUDAS ISCARIOT embraced Jesus, Jerusalem has not seen such a kiss.

After being boycotted by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert for years, Mahmoud
Abbas (Abu Mazen) was invited to the official residence of the Prime
Minister of Israel two weeks ago. There, in front of the cameras, Olmert
embraced him and kissed him warmly on both cheeks. Abbas looked stunned,
and froze.

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